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Hello My name is The Rat I survive You hate me But I survive When you see anyone like me you WILL remember me Because I am not just any evil man I an THE evil man I'm not A rat I am The Rat
In northern Texas in November of 1864, General Kirby Smith took a ride in a hot air balloon to do some reconnaissance. He was accompanied by a young lieutenant by the name of Thicket. About 6 minutes into their flight, the tether snapped, and they began to drift northward towards the Red River, and into enemy territory. At about 12 minutes into the flight enemy troops began shooting at them. Thinking quickly, lieutenant Thicket grabbed the bottle of kerosene that was kept in the gondola with a lantern to read maps during night runs. He took a mouthful of kerosene, lit a match, and began blowing fire into the balloon. After a few turns of this, they gained enough altitude that their balloon was safely out of range of enemy fire. As the young lieutenant put the bottle back and sat down to clear his mouth with several washes of whiskey, general Smith looked at him in awe. "Young man, you should write a book on that." Thicket spat out another mouthful of kerosene laced whiskey and replied "When this is all over, I think I will." After the war, Thicket became carnival entertainer of some report in the city of Galveston. Then one day he sold his house and everything in it, and announced he was moving to Austin. Nobody ever saw him again.
A common trope in stories of immortal beings is the Suspiciously Similar Pseudonym, such as Carmilla/Millarca/Mircalla, or Dracula/Alucard... Or Arbin Woodbrush...Or Thicket.
Jason's not the first one to look at St. Germain and think "vampire"; he's the hero of what was arguably the first vampire romance novel, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's _Hotel Transylvania._
@@allisterhale8229 Oh my god... I can't believe I haven't seen it before. This is all a scheme by TMZ kobra! They've kidnapped Brian and are trying to convince the world he isn't an undying warlock (which we all know he obviously is)
The real question is not if Brian is immortal or not, but rather, whether he is undead or not. After all, that which is deceased has no life to lose. Vampire or not, we still love you Brian.
@@techno_tuna My explanation would be spf 1000 sunblock and a desire to fit in with modern society. Quite frankly, a vampire would have an immensely difficult time trying to blend in with today's social norms if they refused to abandon their aristocratic grandeur of old.
Hi Brian, fellow immortal here. I have a tintype of myself from 1864, and an muster form from the Marine Corps from 1888. I've also had people tell me that I do not look my age, and other things. The best way to get people to not believe you are immortal is to just keep telling them that you are. Good luck, godspeed, and it will be nice seeing you at the convention in 20 years when you're the main speaker. :D
I knew Brian's stage show seemed like a midevil jesters show that would eventually lead to accusations of sorcery and had to go under the radar for years until we can all under stand he was just very dexterous O and I'm still waiting to know where we can get that sweatshirt man lemme know
What I'm about to say may sound like blasphemy but in Italy there is a Saint that was probably either a very similar con man or just the result of a collage of stories: Saint Francis of Paola. He got some the most stupid miracles and yet is one of the most loved (and commercialized) of the country: he resurrected his pet lamb (that was stolen, cooked and eaten), the stopped a boulder from falling (the bouler still being there, of course), he tricked the devil into making a bridge in exange of a soul (that ended up being a dog, same trick used like in 100 other bridges here, dumb devil), he used his mantle both as boat and sails SIMULTANEOUSLY with a cleric as passenger... but the best one was when he went to a bedridden king of France that asked him to being saved just to say no because "was a bigger miracle to convert and accept his fate" (I could do that). He made a TON of other things (lot of resurrections, coins that spill blood, talking trouts...) but are so many that the sources are often in conflict and I always laughed about the huge use of his image to promote products, food, festivals, shirts... but the thing I love the most is that I've discovered that the priest and hagiographer that started the whole saintification was an ancestor of mine. I think he started the whole thing either as a joke or to help turism in Paola (now known only for that saint) Really, look it up and have a laugh
Reminds me of the dude in the Sandman comics series that decides death is for losers and he’s not gonna do it and then he just lives for like 600 years, meeting up with Morpheus every hundred years in the same pub.
I can't believe you guys actually are going there. I only started watching scam School videos within the past year. And then watching the new modern Rogues videos. That was one of the first things that I thought about was that Brian does not freaking age. You're making the rest of us look bad!! I can totally be convinced that he is Saint Germain.
Is Mario Lopez of 'Saved by the Bell' fame also a fire eater? Seriously guys, take a look at "A. C. Slater" then and now! He's obviously a part of the dark cabal whose progenitor was none other than Dick Clark!!!
You forgot to mention the best part: The Necronomicon is a totally fictional book, it does not exist. But it DOES have copies written by several authors. Wouldn't that make it the biggest Rogue in literature?
My great grandmother says she remembers when Brian put the Port Orford meteorite in the back of his truck and drove away. I had always thought she was crazy, because I had no idea which Brian she could have even been referring to...
They did an "In Search Of" episode about this guy. The Leonard Nimoy version, not the Zachary Quinto version. Episode air date was December 31, 1977. One of the things this video doesn't mention is that apparently Count St. Germain was never seen eating. 👀
Brian, I'll join the cabal. I need several things though to help sell it. One of those things will be a picture of you dressed like a pirate, a revolutionary, a hippie (you do have the commune, you could easily get a bunch of people to sit around you while you sit with a long, luxurious wig), and maybe a Quaker with the good book in hand, and a rosary... I need a high quality photo of all of these things.
So..... He's the grey eminence in multiple European powers right before times of great change, he's fluent in 17 languages, infinitely wealthy, claims to be immortal, Transylvanian nobility, might be a vampire, and every time someone comes close to finding out his origins, their evidence goes up in flames. Why hasn't somebody made a movie about this man yet?
"supposedly hard to kill" they poisoned him,bashed his head in,shot him,then wrapped him in a carpet and dropped him in a river,he got out of the carpet and inhaled water it was the freezing water that finally killed rasputin
I have just recently heard of this character and I am fascinated by him. Was he immortal? Was he a vampire? Was he an alchemist or a time traveler? Or was he the greatest con man of all time?
10:52 if you dont like targeted ads... might i suggest an adblocker instead? it also makes all the other ads go away but if like brian you are an immortal - you probably should layer a vpn or two on top to hide your location (the second is to hide your info from the first) =P
Help. Life is getting too hard. Everyone says, brush it off. I can’t afford help. I just need someone who will listen and wants to help. I’m at the of my road. Please, help.
Tbh, if enough people say it, literally anything, no matter how stupid, can become an internet-wide rumor. And there’s a 70-80% chance most people will hear it but not bother to fact-check it.
He wore a The World's Greatest Con sweatshirt. I thought that meant he was subtly saying that the next episode was coming out. I didn't see anything when I checked though. :'(
